LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 7 July 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Memoirs of a Patchwork Life

Maneeta Kahlon, Ph.D.

Jerry Pinto’s Leela

A biography is generally assumed to be a complete biographical detail of an individual. The word comes from the Greek - "bios" meaning "life" and "graphein" meaning "write." But the book under consideration here is not a biography in the conventional sense of the term but Jerry Pinto’s Leela comes across as a refreshing change. The book in the prologue clears this misunderstanding.


At the outset Leela says, “Literary critics have now come to the conclusion that no one can give a full account of their lives any more than anyone can document every moment in the life of a universe.” (1) So, we are prepared to read about episodes in Leela’s life which have influenced her life rather than the chronological details.


Samuel Johnson said, “Biography has often been allotted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers, but imagine themselves writing a life when they exhibit a chronological series of actions or preferments; and so little regard the manners or behavior of their heroes that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral."(Johnson:Rambler 60(Oct13,1750).

 

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Maneeta Kahlon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Shanti Devi Arya Mahila College Dinanagar
District: Gurdaspur, Punjab
India
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